VN - Ren'Py - Saving Paula [v0.0.30o] [XTZ Adult Games]

Saving Paula [v0.0.30o], I like the idea and the renders are pretty good. The issue I have is the updates are so small and take so long I forget what happened. I was a Patreon on this for awhile but like I said the wait and the small updates just were not worth it.

Short summary:


First, this isn’t a terrible game. But the raving reviews people leave for its “story” just shows how low of a bar AVNs had set for the realistic family corruption stories.


The idea of helping the milf get back in shape and revitalize her career gives options for slow methodical development, which is nice.


But right at the start she already isn’t shying away from exposing herself and doing sexually suggestive back and forth with the MC, who is her son. And right after she masturbates thinking about him.
Is that what the “realistic development” and good characters are these days? Realy?


Granted, it’s not the worst out there, but far from the 5 stars, other reviews would led you to believe.



Good Things

• Age-appropriate milf
• Some renders are pretty good
• Lots of well-done teasing
• Interesting premise

Bad points

• Characterization is bad, sister is despicable, MC is a nobody
• Some parts of the story make no sense
• Relationships between characters and what’s acceptable alternate between rushed and slow

Review of version 0.0.30o

Very promising so far. There are a lot of hints of things to come but I hope the story and scenes remain focused on the titular character. The models are all very good looking we finally have a realistic milf. The only one thing is that there are some discrepancies between character and set design between updates but hopefully that has now been sorted out. Very much looking forward to future updates from this game.

Animation: Very good, quality images here
Scripting: A few grammar mistakes but very good so far
Story: There seems to be a large build up of storylines and plots. It's still very early so hard to tell where this will go.

This game seems like alot of fun. However it is still very new and seems to be veering towards multiple/options paths which can really bog things down for a developer as a game progresses. Either way I look forward to seeing what they come up with.

Unlike many milf games, this game has a lot of potential considering the depth of all characters. Sex doesnt start right away. You see the emotions building up between the characters. The different choices really bring more variety. This is a game I will be trying after every updates. Unfortunately, it has a long way to go. All in all it is a great but a rare project these days.

Excelente mix of teasing, art and characters, continue on teasing and growing up paula's lust! the "sister" is a potencial too, not too fast cause you will running out of ideas, but not too slow! kkkkk introduce scenes of bath, voeyurism and you will succed!

Giving this 4 stars due to a well rounded effort and decent start.

This is showing a lot of promise. Decent renders, realistic characters. A good story developing with believable (mostly) dialogue. Facial expressions help support the situations and dialogue. Looking forward to seeing more. Nice work so far.

Some may find Paula's character too unattractive but I have a feeling this is a well thought out part of the story.

Wow this game is so good. Very exciting and tremendous characters and story. And no grinding parts.
Mom character is one of the best and most beautiful and sexy I've ever seen.
I hope to see more soon.
Tx

I think after this update I can make a desicion about rating. I have really enjoyed the game. I believe the relation between the mother and son is ideal for this kind of game, they not become lover in a minute and won't make us wait for decades it seems.

However, there is a great drawback: I have tried to check the dialogue options and there is no many branches. Even with this situation, update length and frequency are not very promising. I hope it get better with the supports and the game will deserve five star

It's tough to review this one. Real tough. Just about everything about this game hits my buttons. I like the milfs and honestly, for my tastes I like the simple story. Im playing to fap and relax I don't need complicated plots. I'm good.

I dont much care about the school plot though, the teacher is dressed like a dominatrix and the principle plot is just out there... that turned me off personally... it's just too in your face.

I wont judge my score on the updates though BUT I will round down my score because of it. The last one 0.30b I honestly saw like 1 minute of new stuff that didnt advance the game at all? I did look at the in game folder for new renders and all could see was 1 scene... Maybe my choices werent inline with the update? I don't know. But it did stop me from wanting to give actual $ for support... It's a shame. But I do get it, developing a game is not easy and takes ALOT of your free time.

So my final score based on everything would be a 3.5 but I have to round down on this one as I said. Average. Solid 3

So i'm guessing this will be another game that i'll never see completed from what the other reviews say which suuuuuuucks because this is a pretty unique game. I almost didn't play this and after doing so, i somewhat regret it because i now have to way or i'll never see this complete.

first off nice renders...they look pretty damn good for the most part besides the orgasm faces. While i enjoy the interactions in the game so far, it tends to rely on the same a handful of renders to visualize a conversation. i enjoy the dialogue as well as find the gameplay interesting with you being able to pretty much control not only yourself but other characters as well. i truly need more of Silvia and Paula going at eachother because that last sunbathing scene was amazing.

main gripes are that the game isnt done yet and that some of the faces can be odd but besides that, pretty neato game.

At it’s core there’s a really intriguing concept in this game, the ability to actually shape and manipulate a love interest’s physical appearance and character. Unfortunately after 3 years progress has been stagnant, with each update essentially being a few minutes of content that barely moves the narrative forward. The central premise is out of reach and the scant choices offered are meaningless at this point. Pretty visuals and character design can’t really save this empty experience.

Solid female character with evident potential for corruption. Models and cg is nice and the cast is likeable. Hopefully the dev introduces some more male characters to interact with. School setting is also neat. Not a lot of content atm, but hopefully this is addressed over time. All in all, a promising fmc game.

Edit: Ok, didn't realise this game was at least 2 years into development. That is... troubling. I'll deduct 2 stars. I'll increase if progress increases.

This game has:
- decent graphics
- way more renders than necessary
- bad writing
- too many characters straight off the bat
- very little content
- tiny updates
- "abandonware" written all over it

The only thing setting this game apart from all the others is the idea of player's choice influencing the appearance of one of the characters. Interesting concept, perhaps even feasible in a game which focuses solely on that single character, which "Saving Paula" absolutely isn't. Moreover it takes several months to continue a single scene, without even finishing it in the same update - this project is doomed to fail.
I will eat a cactus if this game doesn't get abandoned.

Review for v0.0.29b :-

TLDR: You may want to skip this one, if you're more of a vanilla player.

The character models look good, and they're mostly unique. Many of the faces have been used before, but there is some minor change to not make it immediately apparent. There is more expressiveness in faces, but some of them tend to be overexpressed resulting in some goofy expressions overall.

The render quality is better than average, but they seem to lack a certain fidelity/sharpness or polish which you'd normally see in other popular VNs. Backgrounds, posing and camera angles could use more improvement though.

The VN has been in development for more than 2 years, and it took me lesser than 30 minutes to complete what is on offer. But, since I'm a fast reader, for the average player this could take around 40-50 mins, or maybe even an hour.

Speaking of content, more specifically adult content. There is none. Only thing close to it, is some minor nudity in a shower scene with college girls. And the rest of it is just bikini shots, panty peeks, and deep cleaveges. In some scenes where more nudity could be shown, it is intenionally obscured, like some TV show trying to dodge the 18+ rating.

The story is nothing new- divorced mother who needs comforting, bitchy older sis, overtly pervy MC, it's a classic setup for an Incest or NTR narrative. The writing feels amateruish at times, but it's serviceable enough if you're not looking for a deep plot. I didn't find any glaring grammar issues, but it felt like English was this dev's second language.

The story is told through multiple perspectives, so far, for all the family members. So you'll be making choices for them, to increase their stats, and see scenes from their perspectives. This leads to a very jumbled and unfocued narrative. This doesn't feel like a singular or dual protagonist game where you get to decide characters' fates through the decisions you make, it feels more like a fuck-fest game where you get to see every main character's POV and decide what route that may be on. But we're 2+ years in and there is no smut in sight, at all, and it all feels largely kinetic.

Now so far, the review I've written shouldn't warrant a 1 star rating, it would be around 2.5 stars. But the adult content (and lack thereof), the themes it seeks to represent (which ends up heavily leaning one way), and the future direction, is where I find my biggest problem.

The game is marketed to have a degree of choice, but so far, the only choices are minor stat increasing ones which may lead to future scenes and certain content. At many points where it would feel like a choice should have been given to the player (for all its protags), there is none, and the story is railroaded forward, which gives off a kitenic novel feeling (eg:- choices should have been given for- MC helping to remove Paula as Dept Head, older sister agreeing to strip in-front of teacher, Paula's conversation with the Director). These characters have pasts, and are written a certain way. They will act like it, and your choices absolutelty won't change this.

While NTR has been mentioned as "very avoidable" and "optional", this VN feels like an NTR game with "optional" vanilla content as the secondary focus. Like many of the ones on this site, trying to play both sides and serve everyone, but ultimately pleasing no one.

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If you're a Vanilla player and dislike NTR content and its subsets, this review is relevant to you. If you don't mind NTR or like it, then this VN is probably a 3-4 star rating. Either way, given what we've seen so far, and the promise of certain types of future content to come, it's not hard to see which side of the fence this VN will end up on.

I played through this to see why it was so highly rated, for a two year old game I expected some decent content.
The premise is great and the renders pretty decent, the issue comes down to content.

There's next to none at this point.
It took me less than hour to burn through all of it, and no actual sexual acts happen beyond a few character occasionally getitng naked, and then right at the end the main mail character rubbing sunscreen on a girl.

For two years of development time I really cant say this game is worth it.

v0.0.29b

I like how the game looks and the idea of being able to control Paula's muscle size. It's cool to see how that would work in the game. The characters look great, but I'm a bit bummed that there hasn't been much new stuff in the five updates, especially with so many female characters involved. Also, I'm not a big fan of the scenes moving automatically; I'd rather click and go through them myself, step by step. The game could also use more music and sounds to make it better.
In my opinion, this game has the potential to be awesome, especially with these tags it has, but it would be great to have updates with more new adult content. but right now it's one of those games you look forward to downloading and playing once a year in order to finally get lots of fresh stuff.

Really enjoying this game/story. The facial expressions are sometimes funny and sometimes very realistic. The storyline is believable and I was so hoping for the son to already be banging the mom and sister. Maybe in the next update. I am already excited about the next update. Good luck, dev.

very short, and there is barely any content in the game. The writing is serviceable, nothing out of the ordinary. Not really a fan of multiple player characters. The game offers some choices in conversations, but when those conversation involve two of the player characters the choices offered arent really clear who they belong to. The renders look ok, but for a porn game they seem too "censored", always obscuring in one way or another the "interesting parts". I like the main characters Paula and her mother seem to be the most interesting ones so far, but like i said, there is not much to do or see here.

I really love the way the models look ,this game has my full attention especially how we can shape beautiful Paula I really hope we "CAN SAVE Paula"!!! Hopefully we could decide the outcome of the scenes that involved Paula. I'm just not a big fan of NTR, sorry I'm just not. I really do love the way this game looks! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK thank you.